Combination collar and cuff button.



No.- 757,978. PATBNTBD APR. 19,1904.

A. E. STRANG. COMBINATION COLLAR AND CUFF BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 15, 1903.

I0 MODEL.

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UNITE STATES ALBERT E. STRANG,

Patented April 19, 1904.

OF CANTON, OHIO.

' COMBINATION COLLAR AND CUFF BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,978, dated April 19, 1904.

Application filed May 15, 1903. Serial N0. 157,261. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. STRANG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Combination Collar and Cuff Button, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to buttons; and it consists, substantially, in the improvements hereinafter described and claimed;

The invention has reference more especially to that class or type of buttons adapted for use either as a collar-button or a cuff-button; and the principal object of the invention is to provide a combination-button of this charac ter which is simple in construction as well as effective in use, besides being cheap to manufacture and composed of few parts of compact organization.

A further object of the invention is to provide a combination-button of this character a which possesses several important advantages over similar buttons hitherto devised with like ends in View and also to provide a button of a construction by which the parts thereof may be readily reversed and applied or fitted together to adapt the button for either of the uses for which the same is primarily intended, and a still further object is to provide a button of the character referred to which is light in weight, besides being strong and having a capacity for long and continued service.

The above and additional objects are attained by means substantially such as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a view in perspective of my improved button, showing the parts thereof assembled for use as an ordinary collar-button and as the same may be purchased upon the market. Fig. 2 is a similar view representing one of the elements or parts of my improved button reversed in position, by which the button is converted into one of that form usually employed in connection with an ordinary cuff. Fig.8 is a side view, partly in section, of my improved button as illustrated in Fig. 1, the hollow shank of the button being in the required position to effect a suitable fastening of the button to the neckband of an ordinary shirt; and Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, the parts being in the same position indicated in Fig. 2, the said figure indicating more clearly the organization of the parts or elements of the device when employed as an ordinary cuff-button.

Before proceeding with a more detailed description it may be stated that my improve button comprises what may be termed a base portion, projecting from which is a suitable stem and cooperating with which stem is a reversible element or member of special construction, which, accordingly as the same is applied in one way or the other to the said stem, renders the button or structure as an entirety capable of use either as an ordinary collar-button or cuff-button. The several elements or parts of the button'or device are well adapted to each other and are easily and quickly fitted or applied one to the other, and when the button is in use neither of the said elements or parts is apt to Work loose or become lost, which is a desideratum in this class of inventions.

My improved button has several decided advantages over many others of a like character heretofore employed, and while I have herein represented the same in a certain preferred embodiment it will be understood that I am not limited to the details thereof in practice,

since immaterial changes therefrom may be resorted to coming within the scope of my invention.

Reference being bad to the several parts of the drawings by the designating characters thereon, 1 represents What may be termed the back or base of my improved button, projecting from which on one side is a centrally-disposed screw-threaded stem2 of suitable height or length, the same being preferably conical or tapering at 3, where the same is joined or fastened to the said back or base 1, substantially as indicated in Fig. 3. Screwed upon the said stem 3 is a hollow shank 4, which is preferably formed at the lower end thereof, also with a base portion 5, the walls of the bore or opening 6 in said shank being preferably beveled or flared at 7,

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I by which to conform to the conical or tapered portion of the said shank 2, hereinbefore specified, this latter construction enabling the shank 4 to be screwed'all the way down upon the stem 2, so that when the button is not in use the base portions 1 and 5 of the stem and shank, respectively, may be brought close to getheras, for instance, as is indicated in Fig. 1. The hollow shank 4 is conical or tapered externally from the base 5 thereof, upwardly, as shown at 8, while the upper end thereof is slightly enlarged all around at 9, as and for the purpose hereinafter more particularly explained. The bore or openingin'the shank isalso threaded a suitable distance from its upper end to receive a screw 10, having at the outer end thereof a suitable head 11, which may be of the usual approximately semicylindrical form, such as is common to buttons which are employed for fastening the ends of a collar to a shirt-band.

Thus constructed my improved device is well adapted for all purposes of an ordinary collar-button, as is apparent, and in applying the same the several parts of the button are first separated and the stem 2 passed through the buttonhole of the shirt-band from the inner side of the latter, whereupon the hollow conical shank is then applied to said stem in a manner to cause a portion of the shirt-band 12 to be received between the said base portions 1 and 5 of the said stem and shank, respectively, as clearly indicated in Fig.6. After applying the hollow conical shank to the said stem the ends of the collar may then be fastened upon the shank by slipping the smaller end of the latter through the buttonholes in the ends of said collar, whereupon the screw 10 is screwed into the outer or upper part of the shank, and thus will the ends of the collar be firmly secured in place in the ordinary way.

It will be seen that in virtue of the annular enlargement 9 of the outer or upper end of the shank 6 the ends of the collar will be prevented from slipping from the said shank, so that the operator or person using the device is not obliged to exercise any care in holding the ends of the collar in place during the application or fitting of the head 11 to the shank in the manner already described.

As shown in Figs. 2 and 4, each of the elements or parts of my improved button occupies substantially the same position as in Figs. 1 and 3 with the exception that the position of the hollow shank4 is reversed, thus bringing the enlarged or base po'jtion 5 of the said shank some distance beyond the base portion 1 of the stem 2, so that when the screw 10 of the head 11 is fitted in place within the outer or upper end of the hollow shank 4 the device or structure-becomes converted into a button filling all the requirements of the ordinary cuff-button, the said head 11 and the outer surface of the said enlarged portion 5 of the shank then constituting the exposed portion of the button and which may be suitably ornamented or not, as may be desired in practice.

It will thus be seen that I have devised a very simple and effective combination-button for instance, those made up of a single or uni tary structure.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A combination collar and cufl button comprising a base having centrally thereof a stem, conical or tapering at the part thereof connecting with said base, a reversible hollow shank detachably fitting said stem and enlarged or flaring internally at one end thereof adjacent to said base, thereby to conform to said conical or tapering portion of the stem, said shank also having at this end an enlarged in the other end of said shank.

2. A combination collar and cuff button comprising a stem having a small head to form the head of a collar-button, a shank having a flange larger than the head of the stem, and a base, the shank being reversible to bring the flange thereof adjacent to the head, thereby forming a cuff-button with a broad head, or in a position adjacent to the base, thereby forming a collar-button having a head smaller than the head of the cuff-button.

In testimony whereof I h ave signed my name to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses. Y

(JHAs. M. BALL,

GEORGE E. KING.

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